September Quotes - Page 2

• Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

  Edward Dowden

  Summer, Spring, Moon

  Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”

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• The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

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• No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.

  Billy Graham

  Morning, Tuesday, Day To Remember

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Air, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.371, Library of America

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• Try to remember the kind of September
  When life was slow and oh
  so mellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When grass was green and grain was yellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When you were a tender and callow fellow.
  Try to remember and if you remember
  then follow
  follow.

  Tom Jones

  Yellow, September 11, Trying

  "Song: 'Try to Remember'". 1960.

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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Morning, Children, Taken

  "Obama: Decade Since 9/11 a Story of American Resilience". www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

  A. E. Housman

  Play, Long, Tunes

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Sadness, Fire Burning

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Autumn, Colour

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• For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

  George Washington Cable

  Summer, June, Gossip

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

  Neil Diamond

  Morning, Night, Play

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• A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

  William F. Longgood

  Summer, Garden, Years

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, September 11, Way

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Laughter, Creativity

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• We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mean, Long, People

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Wall, Eye, Fire

  Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Dark, Blue

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Bavarian Gentians”

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• If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

  Jon Stewart

  Rights, September 11, Liberty

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• The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Numbers, September 11, Bears

  "New York's Governor And Mayor of New York City Address Concerns of the Damage". News conference, New York, transcripts.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

  John Keats

  Fall, Autumn, Gourds

  "To Autumn" l. 1 (1820)

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• Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

  George W. Bush

  America, United States, Forget

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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